Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07
SOJITH CAROLINA NEWS,

The Secetary of State has issued a GER
tifcate of charter to the Peoples Loan and
Exchange bank, of Laurens. The bank
has a capital of $4,000.
- Fire occurred at Branchville last We'd
nesday afternoon, destroying nine build
ings. Loss $40, 900 on which there was
insurance for $4,000.
Charleston is complaining against
freight determinations by the Richmond
and Danville railroad. Complaints have
been made to the Interstate commission
and to the State railroad commission.
u It was decided at a meeting of the
penitentiary board, last Thursday, to with
draw one hundred convicts from the
the same by the day to Rice & Coleman,
who now have a contract with the Geor-
gia, Carolina and Northern Railroad.
The Neus and Courier correspondent
at Sumter says the bank examiner has
finished the examination of the Sum-
ter bank, and finds that Cashier Bart
lett plundered it thoroughly. His short
age is s79,3 5 which absorbs the $780,
600 capital, and the S11 900 surplus,
and leaves q deficiency Of $4,000 for the
stockholders to make good. The assets
he left are worth but STATS, unless the
S144 worth oflottery tickets belonging to
him and which the bank has seized, should
draw something.
- Mr.. A. Williford, of Winnsboro, had
the misfortune to lose a considerable
amount of cotton by fire on Thursday.
While ginning cotton one of the bales
caught from a spark from the engine, but
it wa thought that the fire was extin-
guished. A wagon was loaded with five
bales, the burnt bale being at the bottom.
While on the way to town the cotton was
discovered burning, and before it could be
put out every bale was more or less burn
ed. The ire'in the first bale had not been
fully extinguished and it caught the others
On the wagon.
James A. Hoyt, Commissioner from
South Carolina for the Constitutional Gen.
tennial at Philadelphia in September, has
received a schedule of railroad rates for
the occasion. The southern passenger
agents. association has agreed to authorize
the sale of tickets to Philadelphia from
any point in this State, at one fare for the
round trip. The tickets are good from the
18th to the 10th of September inclusive.
Military and other organizations in uni
form, travelling or one ticket and number
ing twenty-five or more, are charged one
cent a mile for the distance travelled to
and from Philadelphia.
- Ridge Spring correspondence Ne,os
and Courier: A suspicious looking young
white man, riding a bay horse, was taken
up near this place on Wednesday for ex-
animation. He gave hic name as John j.
Walker, of BelleW Creek, Stokes county,
N. c., but a letter was found in his pocket
directed to his wife, at New Market, Ran
dolph county, n. G., which revealed his
name as D. H. Briles. Upon close question
ing he was caught in numerous falsehoods,
and upon being told that he must 60 to
jail, he owned up that his name was D. II.
Briles, that the horse he had vas the prop
erty of H. T. Taylor, of Lewiedale, Lex
ington county, and that he had taken him
to ride off but intended to return him.
However, he was trying on his way to
sell him. He said he was employed by
Taylor to work, and in his absence he took
the horse. He was riding OF a bed quilt
which he took from the house. Upon very
close quizzing, by his answers and eva.
sions, he is suspected of being an escaped
convict from the penitentiary of North
Carolina. He was committed to Lexing-
ton jail.